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THREE DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE.; ARRIVAL OF THE AUSTRALASIAN. The British Press Uneasy on American Affairs. The Question of United States Claims in Parliament. Mr. Layard Says None Have Yet been Made. Discussion of the Address in the French Chambers. DEATH OF THE DUKE DE MORNY. GREAT BRITAIN. COMMENTS ON AMERICAN AFFAIRS. LETTER FROM CAPT. SEMMES. AFFAIRS IN PARLIAMENT. FRANCE. THE FRENCH SENATE. THE BANK OF FRANCE. ELECTION OF M. GUIZOT.

The Cunard mail steamer Australasian, Capt. COOK, which left Liverpool at 9 o'clock on the morning of the 11th, and Queenstown on the 12th March, arrived at this port last evening.

The Etna reached Queenstown about noon on the 10th.

The news by the Etna of the fall of Wilmington was not unexpected, and the effect, therefore, was not so great as it otherwise would have been. Federal securities improved under the news, but the Confederate loan was only a shade lower, having declined in anticipation. At Liverpool and Manchester there was an increased flatness in the cotton trade.

The Army & Navy Gazette says the news by the Etna is of a character generally to tax the faith of those who believe that the Confederates will maintain their cause in the field. LEE's communications are threatened on all sides. GRANT, as if preparing for a rush, has contracted his lines, and is awaiting all THOMAS' infantry from the West, HOOD and his confeds being quite in nubibus.

ENGLAND AND THE UNITED STATES.

The Daily News denounces those who cultivate a policy of distrust in regard to America, and says: "It is time to introduce a little reason into the discussion of American affairs. That claims on England by the United States, and on the United States by England, should have grown out of the war, was inevitable. We have seen it stated within these few days, (in the Times,) that it is the business of English statesmen to see that we are not placed under the 'penance' of having claims urged upon us that we cannot admit. It is needless to say that no rational Englishman expects such a service from our public men. Our Government has only to persevere in its present course, acting fairly and honorably, and repelling all unjust pretensions. It will then command the support of an united and patriotic people, and we shall not need to disquiet ourselves although our neighbors should become unreasonable."

The Morning Star makes the following remarks: "The gossip which is maintained in the city about the probability of a war with America, is probably in some cases assiduously fostered for business purposes, but any genuine alarm appears to be confined to those who were the most scrupulous Confederate partisans. They seem to feel that, having exhibited as much hostility as they possibly could against the United States, a hostile sentiment on the part of that nation may be expected in return. But they may calm their fears. The policy of great nations is not shaped in accordance with the partisanship and animosities of individuals. The course of the British Government during the war has been determined by the policy and interest of the country at large, and not according to the fanatical sympathies of a portion of the people. So will it be with the American Government, should the rebellion be soon put down. The fire-eaters in New-York may utter loud threats, especially if they perceive, from the tone of the journals which supported the South, that a contemptible fear has how taken possession of them; but the Government of the United States, and the vast majority of the nation, will be too heartily glad of peace, when it comes, to think of bolstering up a quarrel against a nation fifty times more formidable than the South."

Captain, now Admiral, SEMMES has written to a friend in England, who has published his letter in the Morning Herald. He thus refers to the State of Texas, which, he thinks, has profited rather than suffered from the effects of the war, and will, in all probability, become the great storehouse and manufactory for the supply of the needs of the Confederates:

"The State of Texas alone has within her limits all the materials, and is last getting the appliances for equipping and maintaining armies; end when you reflect that she has three times us much territory as the empire of France, and that countless herds of horses and beef cattle wander over her boundless prairies, you can well imagine with what contempt this warlike people regard the insane threat of subjugation. If our armies were driven to-morrow across the Mississippi River, we could still fight the enemy for a century to come in Texas alone."

In the House of Commons on the 9th inst., Lord ROBERT CECIL asked whether any demands had been received by the Foreign office from the American Government or the American Ambassador demanding compensation for losses occasioned to American citizens by the Alabama or other vessels commissioned by the American Government of the Confederate States.

Mr. LAYARD said that there had been no demand of the kind made during the last six months.

Mr. BRIGHT asked whether the Government had not received numerous claims from English subjects against the Government of the United States on account of the transactions during the war, and whether they were intended to be forwarded by the Government?

Mr. LAYARD said the Government had received claims of this character, and they had been forwarded.

Mr. F. PEEL, in reply to Mr. BAXTER, said that two vessels, not quite seventeen years old, were still employed by the British and North American Royal Mail Company, (Cunard line;) but there had been no complaint as to any delay on that account in the postal service. With respect to the future arrangements the contract would not expire until the end of 1867: but the Select Committee on Postal Contracts had expressed an opinion that no subsidy was now necessary for this line, and that there could be a very efficient postal service without any further subsidy. When the time came, this view of the committee would not be lost eight of.

Mr. White asked whether, with a view to establish friendly relations with Brazil, it was the intention of her Majesty's Government to repeal the act known at the "Aberdeen Act."

Lord PALMERSTON said was not the intention of the Government to do so, for he believed that the Brazilian Government, with the beat intentions, would not be able to prevent a revival of the slave trade. He might, however, state that negotiations were still going on, through the intervention of the Portuguese Government and that of the Emperor of the Brazils.

Lord PALMERSTON, in reply to Mr. MAGUIRE, stated that the British Minister had remonstrated against the assumed intention of the Brazilian Admiral and the Commander of the insurgent forces to bombard Monte Video, and had received an assurance that the property of British and foreign subjects should be respected as far as possible.

The naval estimates were further debated and the vote for 69 500 men was agreed to.

The proceeding on the 10th were unimportant in both Houses.

THE LOCK-OUT IN THE IRON TRADE.

There was a prospect of an understanding being come to between the masters and men in the important "lock-out" in the iron trade.

LARGE FAILURE.

The old established bank of ATTWOOD SPOONER & CO., of Birmingham, had suspended payment, with liabilities estimated at about £1,000,000 sterling.

THE YELVERTON CASE.

The Court of Sessions at Edinburgh had refused, by a majority of the judges, to abstain the reference of the celebrated YELVERTON marriage case to the oath of Major YELVERTON.

The Morning star says that Mr. RUMBLE, the Government Inspector of machinery afloat, who was recently acquitted on the charge of complicity in the case of the rebel steamer Rappahannock, has been placed upon half-pay, on the ground of his being no longer deserving of the confidence of the Government.

DEATH OF THE DUKE DE MORNY.

The Duke DE MORNY died on the 10th inst.

FRANCE AND THE UNITED STATES.

The Paris correspondent of the Morning Star says:

"It is asserted that a remonstrance has been sent to the French Government by the United States Minister in Paris, as to the clandestine shipment of Confederate recruits on board the Rappahannock, stationed at Calais. These men had arrived from Liverpool, having been part of the crew of the Southern ship Florida."

COMMENTS ON SHERMAN'S CAMPAIGN.

SHERMAN's successes in South Carolina are thus commented on by the Opinions Nationale, of Paris:

"The wild despair which induced the Carolinans to set fire to their metropolis, will not win for them the sympathies of the civilized portion of the world, for they have never been anything but mere rebels against a just Government. Their cause has never been that of liberty. Their watchword is, "slaves and slavery." The line of conduct adopted by SHERMAN is well calculated to force the South to return to the path of duty. The General has baffled the plans of his enemy by the skill of his tactics, and the energy of his movements, whilst by his moderation and justice he has aroused in the insurgent population love of the old Federal flag. The progress of the liberating army (armee liberatrice) toward the north will decide the fate of the rebel capital. Richmond will be the last retreat of Mr. JEFFERSON DAVIS, and the last rampart behind which rebel slavery will find a shelter."

In the French Senate on the 9th the general discussion on the Address was commenced. The MARQUIS DE BOISSY expressed a wish that the Ministers should be responsible for the policy of the Government. He pointed out the deplorable conduct pursued by England, which was still the asylum of assassins ready to attempt the life of the Emperor; and continued. "I do not believe that the convention of September will ever be carried out. It is necessary that the Pope should remain in Rome, for, if France is Bonapartist, much more is she Catholic."

Marshal MAGNAN animadverted in energetic langguage on the assertion of Marquis DE BOISSY, that on the day of the Emperor's death, France would fall into a state of anarchy, When this event occurred, the Senate, the Corps Legislatif, the army and the country would proclaim the Prince Imperial, and France would be saved.

The Marquis DE BOISSY then continued. He condemned the French intervention in Mexico, but strongly expressed a wish that the war between the Federals and Confederates might be carried on to the complete ruin of both belligerents rather than the French army in Mexico should be made prisoners by the conclusion of peace. [Loud expressions of disapprobation.] The Marquis DE BOISSY hoped, in conclusion, that the Emperor and his dynasty would long continue to reign.

M. CHALK D'EST ANGE regretted the impious wishes respecting America, and condemned the expressions of M. DE BOISSY in reference to England.

On the 10th, after further debate, the general discussion on the address was closed and the first eleven paragraphs were then agreed to.

The announcement or the death of the Duke DE MORNY, was received with profound expressions of regret in the Senate.

The weekly returns of the Bank of France, shows an increase in the specie of over 29,000,000 francs. The Bourse was dull. Rentes on the 10th closed at 67@70.

M. GUIZOT has gained his election for the presbytery of Paris by the measuring cast majority of 10 votes only, the numbers at the close of the poll being: GUIZOT, 1,298; BARBEZAT, 1,288. The dissensions among French Protestants may therefore be expected to continue.

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A version of this archives appears in print on March 24, 1865, on Page 1 of the New York edition with the headline: THREE DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE.; ARRIVAL OF THE AUSTRALASIAN. The British Press Uneasy on American Affairs. The Question of United States Claims in Parliament. Mr. Layard Says None Have Yet been Made. Discussion of the Address in the French Chambers. DEATH OF THE DUKE DE MORNY. GREAT BRITAIN. COMMENTS ON AMERICAN AFFAIRS. LETTER FROM CAPT. SEMMES. AFFAIRS IN PARLIAMENT. FRANCE. THE FRENCH SENATE. THE BANK OF FRANCE. ELECTION OF M. GUIZOT. Order Reprints|Today's Paper|Subscribe